Hi! I sometimes need to see diffs in vim. It is quite usable and pretty. One thing I miss: when you change to one window to another, the cursor can go to a...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 4, 2002 4:00 pm
... Good to hear it works. I never tried it on MS-Windows. ... I have added a remark on the web page. Perhaps I should make an aap.bat file, so that you can...
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Mike Steed
msteed@...
Nov 4, 2002 4:12 pm
... If I understand the problem, one way to solve it is to add .py to the value of PATHEXT in the environment. Then CMD will also match "fetch" with...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 4, 2002 4:33 pm
... If I understand it correctly, adding ".py" to PATHEXT has the effect of being able to type "aap" as a command instead of "aap.py". But this doesn't tell...
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Mike Steed
msteed@...
Nov 4, 2002 4:49 pm
... Right (sorry, I missed that aap is the Python script, not fetch). In order for this to work, there must be an association between the .py extension and...
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Ross Presser
rpresser@...
Nov 4, 2002 7:02 pm
... It's accessed with the FTYPE command, another cmd.exe builtin. The help messages produced by FTYPE /? and ASSOC /? are attached. ... Correct. Available...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 4, 2002 8:23 pm
... Strange that the Python installer does make the association but does not add .py to PATHEXT. Making the association sounds more complicated to me. ... I...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 4, 2002 8:23 pm
... Very strange. You would have to run Vim in a debugger to find out what is happening. ... You could try without the interpreters. The signal handling in...
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Philippe FREMY
P.FREMY@...
Nov 5, 2002 8:42 am
Hi all, I am the guy behind the port of gvim to KDE and the implementation of a KDE vim component (see http://www.freehackers.org/kvim/) Warning, this is a...
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Paul Romanchenko
paul@...
Nov 5, 2002 9:06 am
... [big text skipped] I definitely agrued with Philippe. I read and heard that vim is not like emacs it just editor, but plain editor must be supported by...
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Vince Negri
vnegri@...
Nov 5, 2002 9:17 am
... You missed out one project: 4. Maintenance of the existing codebase until the "new Vim" is stable enough for production use. Do you have a proposal for how...
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Thomas Köhler
jean-luc@...
Nov 5, 2002 9:23 am
Hi, ... I personally don't need it. I'm still editing text with vim (in one way or another) and use applications that allow text being edited in external...
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Michal Vitecek
fuf@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:06 am
... well, vim supports scripting in those languages but IMHO support for python scripting is pretty terrible (i don't know for the other languages and i don't...
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Neil Bird
neil@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:06 am
Just thinking aloud ... Around about 05/11/2002 08:40, Philippe FREMY typed ... ... Agreed; the current mechanism for the remote control of a vim object is...
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Philippe FREMY
P.FREMY@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:23 am
... Through an API :-) ... I don't think it is even necessary to do that with shared library. The important thing is that the core vim engine can be isolated,...
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Philippe FREMY
P.FREMY@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:49 am
... What is needed is a clean API to control vim properly. On top of my head, I see: - set/get current text of the buffer - set/get any line of the buffer -...
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Michal Vitecek
fuf@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:55 am
... i'd add also: - set/get value of variable - add/delete buffer ... just a small correction: IMHO buffer has nothing to do with cursor position - it should...
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Vince Negri
vnegri@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:06 am
... That's ok, I was worried about having to implement CORBA on Win16 ;-) ... the ... I would support any efforts to improve the source code's structure as it ...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:13 am
... This has been asked for many times. My reply has always been the same: Vim is an editor. If you want to do more than edit text, use a framework in which...
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vipin aravind
vipin.aravind@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:35 am
Hello, I have uploaded the beta1.1 version of the utility in the link below. As a word of caution it might be unstable,so please make sure you save your work ...
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Paul Romanchenko
paul@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:39 am
... Sure, vim is an editor. But there are many things in the vim which makes vim more than editor and some restrictions which don't allow to integrate vim into...
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vipin aravind
vipin.aravind@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:44 am
Hello, its tough to satisfy everyone.Bram,Can you satisfy everyone?I like vim because all I need is the .exe which transportable in a floppy plus a few vim...
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Paul Romanchenko
paul@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:53 am
Hello! ;) I'm afraid I was not understood ;) I like vim (otherwise I wouldn't use it). vim is most powerfull editor for me. But there are many things missing...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 5, 2002 12:08 pm
... That is doubtful. You should give real-world examples to make your point. It's too easy to think about all kinds of nice mechanisms you could add....
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Vince Negri
vnegri@...
Nov 5, 2002 12:16 pm
... I agree that having a clearly defined interface would be a benefit, particularly to those wishing to roll their own bindings for some bespoke modified Vim....
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Philippe FREMY
P.FREMY@...
Nov 5, 2002 12:31 pm
... Bram, I must say I was expecting something more constructive than this simple reply from you. We, the KVim guys (Thomas, Mickael and me) have tried to use...
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Vince Negri
vnegri@...
Nov 5, 2002 12:35 pm
... The big difference is non-shared registers (see below) and non-shared options. Anyone used to an editor with multiple top-level windows is used to being...
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Paul Romanchenko
paul@...
Nov 5, 2002 12:36 pm
... Now I can't to start first vim with ":e file" and second with ":e file". The second vim will complain about .swp. Sure, I can to start second vim and make...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 5, 2002 1:16 pm
... You can't edit the same file twice, that's true. That might be the only difference between the two concepts. ... Isn't that what using a different...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 5, 2002 1:16 pm
... Is that really true? I'm sure that when we would make a Vim with multiple toplevel windows and share all registers, options, etc. then the next request...
